Name: Science Open House Celebrating World Water Day
Start: 2026-03-21T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-21T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Stroud Water Research Center

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We advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration.

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Measuring watershed health: training conservation planners how to use biophysical tools for monitoring streams in neo-tropical ecosystems

Sweeney, B.W., et al. 2006. Moore Foundation Peru Project Final Report. Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, Pennsylvania.

Assessment of stream habitat in the Flint River Basin

Muenz, T.K., S.P. Opsahl, S.W. Golladay, D.W. Hicks, B. Clayton, K.A. Cressman. 2006. Final report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Stream buffer effectiveness in an agriculturally influenced area, southwestern Georgia: responses of water quality, macroinvertebrates, and amphibians

Muenz, T.K., S.W. Golladay, G. Vellidis, and L.L. Smith. 2006. Journal of Environmental Quality. 35(5):1924–1938.

Recurring seasonal dynamics of microbial communities in stream habitats

Hullar, M. A. J., L. A. Kaplan, and D. A. Stahl. 2006. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72:713–722.

Diverse and unique picocyanobacteria found in the Chesapeake Bay

Chen, F., K. Wang, J. Kan, M. Suzuki, E. Wommack, and W. Coats. 2006. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72(3): 2239–2243.

Atlantic coast rivers of the northeastern United States

Jackson, J.K., A.D. Huryn, D.L. Strayer, D.L. Courtemanch, and B.W. Sweeney. 2005. Pages 21-71 in A.C. Benke and C.E. Cushing (editors). Rivers of North America. Academic Press, San Diego, California.

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Featured Initiatives and Partnerships

WikiWatershed® web tools offer watershed data visualization, geospatial analysis capabilities, and science-based predictions of human impacts on stormwater runoff and water quality.

The Water Quality mobile app is a water-monitoring data-collection and learning tool designed for use by educators and their students, citizen scientists, and researchers.

EnviroDIY™ is a community where members ask and answer questions and network within interest groups to develop do-it-yourself environmental science and monitoring devices.

The Society for Freshwater Science Taxonomic Certification Program ensures skilled persons are providing aquatic invertebrate identifications in North America.

The Leaf Pack Network® is an international network of teachers, students, and citizen monitors using a simple experiment to determine the health of their local streams.

The Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds provides free technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation organizations.